page_title: Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman
section_title: Touring and name change
hierarchical_section_title: Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman / History / Touring and name change
caption_attribution_description: English: Ticket for a show by Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman on 19 March 2017 in London
context_page_description: Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman, also known as Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman, were a progressive rock band founded by former Yes members Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin and Rick Wakeman in an offshoot of the band. The three had previously worked together in Yes for the 1991–1992 Union Tour. The trio were first announced as working together in 2010.
  After working on new music since 2011, the band announced activity in January 2016 as Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman. Plans for a possible studio album were put on hold to concentrate on touring; their debut worldwide tour, An Evening of Yes Music and More, began in October 2016 and continued through to 2017, with bassist Lee Pomeroy and drummer Lou Molino III. In April 2017, following the three members being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of Yes, the band announced their new name, which they had already been using in European touring.
  After the conclusion of a 50th anniversary tour in 2018, there was no further public activity. The group had disbanded by 2020.
context_section_description: In June 2016, the band agreed to put their album "on the back burner" and make their debut tour a priority. Anderson reasoned the decision down to the little amount of time available for the group to tour and exchange music, in addition to the fact that the group were unsure how or what to record. He also said that the "important thing is to establish ourselves." Preparations for the tour began in mid-2016 in Los Angeles, which involved Anderson, Rabin, and two supporting musicians: English bassist Lee Pomeroy and American drummer Lou Molino III, both longtime bandmates of Wakeman and Rabin, respectively. Wakeman joined them in early August for a week's rehearsals. The five were to be joined by American multi-instrumentalist Gary Cambra, but his involvement was soon withdrawn. Larry Magid was appointed as the tour's director after Lane contacted him with the offer; Magid, who first worked with Yes in 1971 and kept good relations with the members, agreed as the project seemed interesting and fun. Jonathan Smeeton became involved to manage the stage production and lighting.
  The An Evening of Yes Music and More tour began in October 2016 and finished one year later, covering North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. The group performed a setlist of Yes songs that cover various eras of Yes's career, from The Yes Album (1971) to Union (1991), as well as Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe's only studio album.
  On 9 April 2017, the band issued a press release which announced their name change to Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman, a name that had been used on the prior European leg of touring.
  The band's Quintessential Yes: The 50th Anniversary Tour was held to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Yes from June to September 2018. The initial plan was for the group to perform 100 dates worldwide, but Rabin resisted the idea and has implied otherwise. Jon Anderson's wife's diagnosis with breast cancer and then Rick Wakeman's wife with the same also impacted on touring, with the latter causing the last tour leg to be cut short.
  On 7 September 2018, the band released a recording of their March 25, 2017 show at the Manchester Apollo on a live album and video titled Live at the Apollo from Eagle Records.
caption: In early 2017, the band started calling itself "Yes featuring Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman". (Ticket for the London performance shown.)
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